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Time to stop being selfish, stop sitting around watching reality tv, stop thinking about who you are going to cheat on your spouse with and start thinking about raising your kids right and getting involved in their education.......
This speaks volumes about the backward direction the country is headed in on so many different levels...... no, more education spending is not the answer by the way......
Time to stop being selfish, stop sitting around watching reality tv, stop thinking about who you are going to cheat on your spouse with and start thinking about raising your kids right and getting involved in their education.......
This speaks volumes about the backward direction the country is headed in on so many different levels...... no, more education spending is not the answer by the way......
Whew, It's a good thing that meccas of intellectualism such as Chicago and Detroit are propping us up that high.
Well, they didn't break it down that far but yeah, I would guess wherever their are the highest % of broken families, there are the lowest educational levels
Generally works that way...... the question is though, how do we fix it?
Time to stop being selfish, stop sitting around watching reality tv, stop thinking about who you are going to cheat on your spouse with and start thinking about raising your kids right and getting involved in their education.......
This speaks volumes about the backward direction the country is headed in on so many different levels...... no, more education spending is not the answer by the way......
As student participation levels increase, student average scores decrease. That means when a greater percentage of all students take the SAT you are no longer testing the same pool. It used to be only the top 20-25% of all high school students took the ACT/SAT now there are states where 100% of all students take those exams because it is now a state requirement. Of course scores are going to go down if you go from only having college bound students take it to having everyone, including low to moderate functioning special ed students, take the test.
Read the analysis about why the scores are likely dropping. The reality is that more and more kids are taking the SAT and many of them aren't prepared for it, for whatever reason.
The SAT scores now, and have always, track very closely with family income. Last year about 27% of the kids taking the test had family incomes which were low enough to get fee waivers (it goes by Free and Reduced Meals qualification).
If you want to see the scores go up then get the CollegeBoard to stop pimping the tests, get school systems to stop prostituting themselves to the Gates and Broad Foundations to get grants based on how many kids take the SAT, and get parents and School Boards to drop the myth that everyone can go to college.
Well, they didn't break it down that far but yeah, I would guess wherever their are the highest % of broken families, there are the lowest educational levels
Generally works that way...... the question is though, how do we fix it?
Can't be fixed because we lack the will to do what needs to be done.
What needs to be done is to allow some people to starve to death. Let em go hongrey and homeless so they discover bad things happen to them when they don't do the right thing.
Think about it, today having children out of wedlock, having multiple children without fathers (or multiple fathers some of which are never known) is rewarded with Section 8 housing, cash money and food stamps not to mention free medical care. This is done in the name of compassion when all it guarantees is an ever increasing amount of shiftless behavior.
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